Day 2 Friday, Port Sokhna, Egypt For Cairo
Day 2 sees us arrive at 8am into Port Sokhna in Egypt. Now The Thomson ships do tend to dock in shall we say, the less pretty ports. I think they do this to save money and also to encourage passengers to book organised excursions. As you can see from the picture, this is a container port.
The main excursions from this port are to Cairo, the Pyramids and Museum etc. What I like about these ports is that a lot of passengers do get off and go on the excursions, leaving the rest of the ship quite empty for the rest of us to enjoy.
Apart from lazing around the pool and hanging about in the bar, there wasn't much else to do here, however during the afternoon a lorry did reverse over a couple of port workers and after a lot of screaming, they were loaded onto an ambulance and taken away.
After all the passengers returned from their excusrions, we set off around 10pm heading towards the waiting area for northbound traffic through the Suez Canal.
We would spend all of the next day cruising through the Suez Canal to the Med and our next port of Call, Alexandria.
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